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There are myriad ways to describe sexual orientation, but the most common include: heterosexual, being attracted to the opposite gender; homosexual, being attracted to the same gender; and bisexual, being attracted to more than one gender.
- Alison Eldridge
- Overview
- Hijra
- Calalai, Calabai, and Bissu
- Muxe
- Sekrata
- Two-Spirit
- Bakla
Throughout history, many cultures have recognized gender identities other than male and female. Nonbinary people have often occupied unique positions in their societies, serving as priests, artists, and ceremonial leaders. Here are some nonbinary genders recognized by cultures around the world.
Hindu society features the gender hijra, the most common nonbinary identity recognized in India today. Hijras are found in Hindu religious texts and throughout South Asian history. Many hijras are born with male sexual characteristics, though the hijra community also includes intersex people. A unique culture underlies the hijra identity: hijras of...
The Bugis ethnic group of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, recognizes three genders beyond the binary. Calalai refers to people who have female sexual characteristics but present in traditionally masculine ways, often cutting their hair short and dressing in men’s fashions. They also take on a social position similar to men’s, transcending some restricti...
Muxes constitute a community of people in Mexico who typically have male sexual characteristics but embrace a feminine identity. The word muxe bears a similarity to the Spanish word for “woman,” mujer. Muxes often take on household roles that typically belong to women, such as sewing, cooking, and family care. But the community is not a monolith: m...
The Sakalava people, indigenous to Madagascar, recognize the gender, sekrata. Sekrata people have male sexual characteristics, but after displaying behavior viewed as feminine during childhood, they are raised as girls by their families. Sekrata adopt a feminine appearance in styling their hair and wearing jewelry. As adults, they inhabit a unique ...
Two-spirit is a term some Indigenous North Americans have adopted to refer to people in their communities who are believed to embody both a male spirit and a female spirit. Two-spirits are seen as being uniquely able to see life from both male and female perspectives and to bridge the differences between them. While the term two-spirit was coined i...
In the Philippines the term bakla refers to people who possess male sexual characteristics but identify with femininity and often express their gender through feminine dress and behavior. Bakla, while primarily a gender presentation, can overlap with sexual orientation, and many bakla people are part of the LGBTQIA+ community as well. Historically,...
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glocalization. cultural globalization, phenomenon by which the experience of everyday life, as influenced by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, reflects a standardization of cultural expressions around the world.
2024年5月20日 · Types of sexual activity. Human sexual activity may conveniently be classified according to the number and gender of the participants. There is solitary activity involving only one individual, and there is sociosexual activity involving more than one person.
First, in a physiological sense, an animal or plant can adapt by adjusting to its immediate environment—for instance, by changing its temperature or metabolism with an increase in altitude.
2024年4月11日 · mass selection. progeny selection. selective breeding, the practice of mating individuals with desired traits as a means of increasing the frequency of those traits in a population.
2 天前 · The LGBTQ community is, in any country, region, city, or other locality, a group of persons who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer and who feel some degree of empathy and solidarity with each other based on their shared experience of prejudice, discrimination, and disrespect or their awareness of the historical and contemporary oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual ...
